Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dimensions of Russia: developments after the USSR / Klaus von Beyme
  • Never show weakness: how faking autocracy legitimates Putin's hold on power / Stephen Holmes
  • Legitimizing the Russian executive: identity, technocracy, and performance / Eugene Huskey
  • Legitimacy of power and security of property / Stefan Hedlund
  • Capitalism and Russian democracy / Boris Kapustin
  • Democracy in Russia: problems of legitimacy / Boris Mezhuev
  • Power and society in Russia: a value approach to legitimacy / Ruben Apressyan
  • Powerful rationality or rationality of power?: reflections on Russian scepticism towards human rights / Elena Namli
  • The "cultural/civilizational turn" in post-Soviet identity building / Jutta Scherrer
  • Conservative political romanticism in post-Soviet Russia / Andrey Medushevsky
  • Bez stali i leni: aesopian language and legitimacy / Irina Sandomirskaia
  • Medvedev's new media gambit: the language of power in 140 characters or less / Michael Gorham
  • Legitimacy and symphony: on the relation between state and church in post-Soviet Russia / Per-Arne Bodin.